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A CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL KOSHIRA-E (MOUNTING)
WITH TANTO (DAGGER)
The cloisonné-enamel mounts: Meiji era (1868-1912),
the blade: Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
The scabbard and hilt worked throughout in silver wire, and decorated
with overlapping assorted crests and chrysanthemum blossoms
floating on stylised rippled water, the tsuka (hilt) with other repeated
stylised foliate crests on a ground of karakusa (‘Chinese grasses’),
the sides with a band of repeated geometric and hanabishi (flowery-
diamond) motifs on a yellow ground, fitted with plain silver mounts, the
blade of hira-zukuri form, with bo-hi to either side, indistinct ha, vague
itame-hada; unsigned.
Overall: 39.2cm (15 3/8in); the blade: 23.7cm (9 5/16in).
£1,500 - 2,000
JPY230,000 - 300,000
US$2,000 - 2,700
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A CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL KOSHIRA-E (MOUNTING)
WITH NAGINATA-NAOSHI WAKIZASHI
(SPEAR REFORGED INTO A SHORT SWORD)
The cloisonné-enamel mounts: Meiji era (1868-1912),
the blade by Taira Shizukata/Shigemasa,
Muromachi period (1333-1573), 16th century
In the form of a small cut-down naginata blade; the scabbard and hilt
worked in silver wire with a white three-clawed dragon writhing among
aventurine-flecked kiri-mon (paulownia crests) and aoi-mon (hollyhock
crests) on a pale-aubergine ground, the top with a mythological
creature; the cloisonné-enamel habaki decorated with twisting red three-
clawed dragons on a goldenrod ground; the blade of naginata-naoshi
form, gunome-ha, itame-hada, kaeri-fukashi boshi, each side carved
with stylised kurikara and soe-hi, the tang suriage-nakago with two
overlapping mekugi-ana and kiri-yasuri file marks, signed [...] junin seisho
[...] Taira Shizukata/Shigemasa; with a silk embroidered storage bag.
Total length: 65cm (25½in) long; the blade: 41.1cm (16 3/16in) long. (2).

£3,000 - 5,000
JPY450,000 - 760,000
US$4,100 - 6,800

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A CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL KOSHIRA-E (MOUNTING)
WITH TACHI (SLUNG SWORD)
The cloisonné-enamel mounts probably by a Nagoya workshop,
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century; the blade probably
Meiji (1868-1912), Taisho (1912-1926), or Showa (1926-1989) era,
late 19th/20th century
The scabbard and hilt worked in polychrome enamels and silver
wire, decorated with white, red and blue chrysanthemum blossoms
interwoven among karakusa (‘Chinese grasses’) on an aventurine
flecked ground, the tsuba (sword guard) similarly embellished to
match, fitted with silver mounts engraved with chrysanthemums and
foliage, unsigned; the blade of shinogi-zukuri form, choji ha with yaki-
dashi, komaru boshi, unsigned.
Total length: 115.8cm (45½in) long; the blade: 69cm (27 1/8in) long.
£7,000 - 9,000
JPY1,100,000 - 1,400,000
US$9,500 - 12,000

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